Carol Williams,
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Leeds), Ph.D (Rutgers)

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair  Tier II

 

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x6273
Email: carolwilliams@trentu.ca
Office: CC E1.6

Carol Williams is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in U.S. History; Women’s Studies; North American Women’s History; and contemporary Native American women’s history. She holds a tier II Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Gender Studies in the Women’s Studies Department at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Her monograph Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford UP 2003), analyzed settler women's roles in nation-building and considered how photographic activity was employed to advance 19thc Euro American settlement with a final chapter on the collecting and commissioning practices of Coast and Strait Salish peoples on Vancouver Island between 1862 and 1890. Williams has published numerous articles and interviews on the cultural activism and contemporary art production of women artists in North America including most recently: “Thrift and Drift: Dagmar Dahle’s reveries of nature, culture, class, and loss,”(SAAG 2007) “Muscular tongue, strident assertion: the work of Rebecca Burke,” (Owens Art Gallery 2006); “Nation, identity, periphery, and modernity: synthesizing Canada’s photographic history” on the photographs of Jin-me Yoon and Marian Penner Bancroft (YYZ 2005) and “Interview with Gitksan First Nations Artist and Activist, Doreen Jensen”(BC Studies 1998).

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